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Don't Stay in School

Published on Feb 2, 2015

What I learned in school vs. What I didn't learn in school.iTunes: http://goo.gl/n4EgkZ | Bandcamp: http://goo.gl/gDetLTI can't remember feeling so passionate whilst writing something in ages. I absolutely love a lot of the subjects I mention in this - astronomy, particle physics, pure maths... but I hate that everyone is forced to learn them. It should be a choice. There are a million other things wrong with education, but this one stood out as the most obvious and most insane.

The point of this song is to get people talking - if you share it, use #DontStayInSchool so we can all get involved in the conversation.

Lyrics:I wasn’t taught how to get a jobbut I can remember dissecting a frogI wasn’t taught how to pay taxbut I know loads about Shakespeare's classics

I was never taught how to votethey devoted that time to defining isotopesI wasn’t taught how to look after my healthbut mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

Never spent a lesson on current eventsinstead I studied The Old American WestI was never taught what laws there are.I was never taught what laws there are.

Let me repeat - I was not taught the laws for the country I live in,but I know how Henry the VIII killed his women.Divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survivedglad that’s in my head instead of financial advice

I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of lightbut I was never taught my human rightsApparently there’s 30, do you know them? I don’tWhy the hell can’t we both recite them by rote?!

I know igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocksYet I don’t know squat about trading stocksOr how money works at all - where does it come from?Who controls it? How does the thing that motivates the world function?

not taught how to budget and disburse my earningsI was too busy rehearsing cursive.Didn’t learn how much it costs to raise a kid or what an affidavit isbut I spent days on what the quadratic equation is

negative b plus or minus the square root of b squaredminus 4ac over 2aThat’s insane, that’s absolutely insane.They made me learn that over basic first aid

How to recognise the most deadly Mental disorders // ordiseases with preventable causes // How to buy ahouse with a mortgage // if I could afford it‘cause abstract maths was deemed more important

than advice that would literally save thousands of livesbut it’s cool, ‘cause now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths caused by that choice was prime.

Never taught present day practical medicines,but I was told what the ancient hippocratic method is“I’ve got a headache, the pain is ceaselesswhat should I take?” umm... maybe try some leeches?

“Could we discuss domestic abuse and get the factsor how to help my depressed friend with their mental state?”Ummm... no but learn mental mathsbecause “you won’t have a calculator with you every day!”

They say it’s not the kids, the parents are the problemThen if you taught the kids to parent that’s the problem solved then!All this advice about using a condombut none for when you actually have a kid when you want one

I’m only fluent in this language, for serious?The rest of the world speaks two, do you think I’m an idiot?They chose the solar over the political systemSo like a typical citizen now I don’t know what I’m voting on

which policies exist, or how to make them changemais oui, je parle un peu de FrancaisSo at 18, I was expected to elect a representativeFor a system I had never ever ever ever been presented with